My First Nest Egg User Reviews

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Great for littles

How did someone not think of this puzzle idea before?? Chore charts are boring. Chore puzzles are fun.

Favorite tool for chores

I’ve tried so many apps for household management. Most were so manual that I gave up. Love this app so much. The chore puzzles are so easy to use. All 3 of my kids love it. My oldest is 14 and she loves it too! Any small habit we are trying to enforce gets popped into this app.

The bank of dad

I am constantly paying and charging my kids for chores and purchases, but it was so hard to keep track. And my kids always remembered the money I owed them, but never the money they owed me. This app solved that problem for us. Easy to use, great customer service, and motivates my kids to actually be helpful.
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Our Kids Love this App

Our kiddos love using this app to help them stay on task and keep track of the money we owe them. They even pay each other using the app. It’s interesting to see personalities emerge - we have savers and we have spenders. This is helping us form good money habits early. Our kids don’t have bank accounts or debit cards yet, so it’s nice to be able to track their money and allowance without having to connect yet. The chore puzzles are perfect for little kids - fun and visual.
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WASTED 2 HRS FOR NOTHING

I just spent the last 2 hours trying to set this thing up. Between the glitches and lack of necessary features and abundance of unnecessary features, I'm just really angry now.

I have 3 children, I wanted to make each of them a daily, weekly, & monthly chore checklist. I forgot to include something on one of their lists, it took me forever to figure out how to add a chore. I've tried to delete 2 of the chore lists over & over to no avail, not even when I restart the app. says it's deleted, but it's always still there.

Best part? When I go in to see what it looks like on my kids' end, ITS BASICALLY USELESS. the lists are smashed and some words can't be seen, and there's no checklist for them to look at anywhere. If they want to see what they have to do today or this week, they have to click on the puzzle and then scroll through and try to read and figure out what needs to be done. every single time they would log into the app they would have to switch to the chore screen and then select the chore list and then scroll through the overcrowded list with lines overlapping each other, looking for what they need to do. they would have to do that every time and separately for each list into the daily list scroll up and down multiple times, into the weekly list, scroll up and down multiple times, into the monthly list, scroll up and down multiple times… If my kids were that self motivated I wouldn't need an app in the first place.

There should be way to easily edit the chore lists. There should be a way to assign one list to multiple kids. There should be an easy way to reward individual tasks rather than just when they are all completed, there should absolutely be somewhere in the kids side where they can just easily see the checklists of chores, and in 2024 there's no reason why some of the words in a list should be getting cut off or overlapped. You don't give the same amount of space for every line, you have it so that the line adjusts in size to accommodate what is written there. If not, give a character limit so I know I can't list the individual steps of some chores because they're not gonna be able to see it anyway.

two freaking hours of my life I spent trying to set this up just to find out it's basically useless.
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Response from developer

Hi Ellie - We're so sorry for this clearly frustrating experience. You're right - it's 2024 so there's no reason for a couple of these issues:). We appreciate you kindly letting us know and we're working on fixing the spacing issue as I type this. We know you're a busy mom, but if you'd be interested in helping us make improvements so this app works better for your fam please reach out. We always appreciate the opportunity to improve. - Annie & Nicolle (healthyhabits@myfirstnestegg.com)

Just not user friendly enough for me

I was excited to use this app for my 8 yr old but within the last 24 hours from download I have determined this app will waste my time instead of helping us manage it and money. The chore puzzle is a WONDERFUL IDEA, but the functionality needs a lot of help. You have to have even, not odd numbers of chores or routine steps, because they don’t have odd numbers in the app. Then if you make a mistake you have delete and do it all over again. That’s not a fast set up for busy single parents like me. I need to get in there and quickly duplicate a puzzle that’s customized to the routine my child does regardless of how many that day or time of day. Then add it to a weekly calendar so we have structured chores and routines for each day of the week. I will have to go with an app that’s less fun for my child’s goals but that is functional according to a calendar. In essence giving a child the ability to learn all important, goal settings chores/routine completion, time and money management
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Response from developer

Hello! Thank you for trying out the app. Nicolle & I appreciate your feedback. Like you, we're busy moms (I have 4 kids and Nicolle has 3), and we are always looking for ways to improve our app to make it as mom (and dad:) friendly as possible. If you have a moment, I'd love to chat with you about how the puzzles can help your family. We do have odd numbers when it works for a puzzle shape, and you can easily duplicate your routine puzzle (when you redeem there is an option to "redeem and duplicate"). We even just added a new type of puzzle since you left this review that lets you choose how many of each chore you want to add to the puzzle. Give us another try - and please reach out with any questions. Our email and phone number is available on our website, and I'm confident your 8 year old will love the revamped puzzles!

Not for Littles

I wanted to like this app, especially since it’s marketed for those under 6. But there’s no supports for pre or emergent readers. Moreover, the app itself isn’t super user friendly and there’s no time of day settings. (I.e. a task for teeth brushing but for a task rabbit kiddo, they want to check it off right away. I need two of those - one in the morning and one at night. There’s no way to do that and set reminders. At this point, idk what I’m enabling for notifications. I love the financial literacy component, but emergent readers need someone to read and guide them through these lessons.
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Response from developer

Hello! Thank you for taking the time to check out the app. Nicolle & I are constantly looking for ways to make it the best chore, allowance & financial education app for families and your feedback about pre or emergent readers is very helpful. We're moms and this app is our passion project to try to help families like yours and ours. Our email and phone numbers are available on our website and if you're interested, I'd very much like to discuss your ideas for how we can make this app better for our littlest users. Right now our pre-readers use with parent help, but I'm sure your ideas would help us make it even better. Best, Annie

Raise Competent Kids

This app has my kids so excited to do chores and help around the house. They love earning their puzzle pieces and feeling a sense of accomplishment.

Love this app!

Super easy to use and fun for the kids. It’s got them begging to pick up more chores and of course, i’m loving it! I’m also happy it provides them some financial education as well. Would definitely recommend trying it out

Awesome app

App looks simple and easy to use. Love the puzzles concepts as well.

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